Archive for the ‘Products’ Category
5 Minute Developer: How to Build a Real-Time Stock Quote Widget in 5 Minutes
Monday, March 1st, 20105 Minute Developer: How to Build a Currency Converter in 5 Minutes
Monday, February 8th, 2010BGCantor On-Demand: A “Behind the Scenes” Look
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Causing Depth & Disruption Wherever We Go!
Thursday, December 10th, 2009It’s a Small World After All for Real-Time Stock Quotes
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Xignite Launches New Global Currency Forex/Section
Thursday, October 1st, 20092009 SIFMA TMC: Smaller Show . . . Bigger Buzz
Monday, July 13th, 2009Revenge of the Red-Headed Stepchild: Corporate Actions
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Back to Basics with New Global Fundamentals Web Service
Friday, May 15th, 2009
If there’s a silver lining to the global financial crisis, it’s the renewed appreciation for business basics. In this period of uncertainty, company fundamentals and long-term prudence have taken center stage in place of wild-eyed speculation and short-term gains. One anecdotal example of this trend is the steady increase in demand for XigniteFundamentals, now our seventh most popular web service, providing U.S. company fundamentals and financial data.
In fact, a new appreciation for fundamentals could very well be the solution to the current crisis. Many large, successful companies originally started during tough economic times. Just a few examples include Google, Microsoft, FedEx, CNN, GE and HP. These companies might not have survived their trying early years without an intense focus on the core fundamentals that drive profitability and long-term growth.
In response to this back-to-basics trend, we’ve just launched a new web service, XigniteGlobalFundamentals, providing global company fundamentals for securities listed on many major exchanges outside the U.S. The service provides market cap, earnings per share, p/e ratios, and beta for companies around the globe. Check out XigniteGlobalFundamentals for yourself.
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Going BATS Over Real-Time Stock Quotes
Thursday, April 16th, 2009If you’ve wanted to add real-time stock quotes to your public website, but just couldn’t justify the cost, you’ll want to learn more about BATS. No, not the baseball equipment or the “rats with wings.” The BATS stock exchange. As it happens, BATS is the third largest stock exchange in the world, covering 8,000 securities and processing over 10% of U.S. trades. Stock for most public companies are traded on BATS regardless of the exchange that lists them.
BATS has very web-friendly licensing terms for public display of its stock quote data, and we’ve just recently launched two new web services for getting stock quotes from BATS: XigniteBATSRealTime and XigniteBATSLastSale. Websites can publish BATS stock quotes without needing to sign exchange agreements that tie them to per-user or per-hit fees.
BATS has made adding stock quotes to web sites easy and affordable
We originally launched XigniteBATSLastSale to give our customers real-time quotes from BATS-traded securities. More recently we’ve launched XigniteBATSRealTime for customers with heavier usage requirements. In XigniteBATSRealTime, we’ve added data that’s more important for intraday traders, such as tick-by-tick quotes and bid and ask prices.
So, if you’ve been waiting for real-time stock quotes to become more economical for public display on websites, it’s time to take another look at your options.
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Mashing up Financial Market Data with NetworkWorld
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009If you’d like to know what financial market data web services and mashups can really do for you in plain English, then check out the latest NetworkWorld interview with the expert (our CEO Stephane!).
Click on the image above to go to the NetworkWorld podcast.
Market Data Feeds vs. Web Services - Why buy the cow?
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Many of the folks visiting our website looking for market data have previous experience with more traditional (or as we like to say legacy) data feed technology, but have not used Web services. Or, they are new to market data in general and have difficulty cutting through all the technical detail and marketing-speak to make an honest appraisal of what is best for their application. If this sounds like you, then take a look at this quick side-by-side comparison below.
To make a sound business decision, you need to ask yourself the practical question of “Why should I buy the cow, when I can get the milk through the fence?” In truth, there can be very good reasons for buying the cow. For example, you drink an awful lot of milk. Or, maybe you are also a really big meat eater. But, if your business isn’t dairy farming, then you are usually better off just buying the milk.
One often confusing element that is worth clarifying is that on-demand Web services are not only Web services, they are also on-demand. That is, many market data vendors bundle application programming interfaces (APIs) in wih their feed products (often as a free add-on). And, some of these APIs may support Web service standards or at least provide XML formatted output. However, this does not change the business economics of buying data in bulk and deploying and managing the infrastructure to host and distribute it yourself, versus accessing it one transaction at a time over the Internet.
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Financial Market Data Cloud Services - Sheesh!
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008One of the toughest things to explain about what we do… is what we actually do…because it can be really obscure and difficult to communicate to non-developers. After giving all the marketing-speak of how we lower TCO, get rid of IT headaches etc, a lot of people come back with “Uh, yeah, but what do you actually DO?”
So, we’ve been working hard to create some pictures that simply, yet accurately describe what we do, and so far this is what we have come up with.
What are financial Web services or Cloud services?
The idea for this picture is that we help companies do the following:
- come to our website, sign up, try and buy our Web services on-demand like Salesforce.com
- since it’s all over the Web, there is no in-house software etc. requried
- get your data by the song (service) instead of a CD (feed) like iTunes
- to make it easier to build financial apps and websites
(Note: for the lawyers, the trademarks above remain the property of their respective owners)
Then, just when we think we’ve done it, they ask: “So, what is this Splice mashup community thingy then?” This is the picture we came up with for this question…
Splice Web services on-demand community mashup platform
We’re still working on this one, so any help is appreciated.
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